Music

Record label, Fueled By Ramen, is raising money to support The Academy Is… band member Andrew Bishop Mrotek AKA The Butcher. Andrew was violently mugged at the end of July and has been in and out of the ER undergoing several surgeries. He is also without health care and FBR has said that any support that fans can provide will significantly help towards his bills. [Source]

Remember that brawl between Chris Brown and Drake not too long ago? The nightclub is allegedly suing them for $16 million. [Source]

Seattle

Other

Lauren Conrad made a huge mistake by releasing a new DIY video on her YouTube account today that showed her slicing up Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and turning it into a storage project. Fans of the series were not very happy and her video has since been deleted. [Source]

Television

Movies

– Paranormal Activity 3 set the world record for biggest horror movie debut this past weekend raking in $54 million at the box office. [Source]

Seattle

– The Chocolate Box is planning a pop-up shop outside of Pacific Place for mid-fall. The Chocolate Box Express will open Nov. 12 for weekends and beginning Nov 25. daily. [Source]

Other

– The Kardashians are expanding into home decor with their new trademarked name Kardashian Kollection Home. [Source]

– Lindsay Lohan will pose for Playboy for a reported $1 million. [Source]

– Lindsay Lohan arrived to court the other day with some pretty inflated cheeks. Reason for bloating? Apparently she got some dental work done and thank goodness cause her teeth were a wreck last week. [Source]

– The Oakland Police Department just went nuts on the locals participating in OccupyOakland by resorting to tear gas. [Source]

– Japan’s Burger King is launching a new promotion that allows customers to eat “All the Whoppers they can in 30 minutes.” For $11, you can eat to your heart’s content. If America launched this, we’d be in big trouble. [Source]

– The UK’s Daily Mail published a photo along with a headline naming the wrong Olsen twin. For most of their early lives (Ages 0-16,) I believed they were identical because they were always dressed alike, but these days I can tell the two of them apart within seconds. You don’t have to see it in their faces to tell who is who, but you will see it in the way that they are dressed. Need some help telling the fashion icons apart? Check out Fashionista for their guide here.

– If you loved Lauren Conrad’s recently dyed tips as much as I did then learn how to do them yourself with the help of Lauren’s hair stylist Kristin Ess in this step-by-step tutorial. [Source]

– Rihanna will be the star of Armani’s campaigns this fall/winter 2011. [Source]

– Kal Penn will have a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother. [Source]

– Kurt, Rachel, and Finn will not be returning for Season 4 of Glee, but of course we already knew that when Ryan Murphy said they would be graduating after this next year. [Source]

- MTV has renewed Teen Wolf for a second season. I seriously only watch it for these two. [Source]

– Lindsay Lohan apparently thought she was good enough and should have been considered for the role of Nina Sayers in Black Swan. Girl, you delusional? [Source]

– An exact replica of the house from “Up” has been built. Would you live in it? [Source]

– Weezer and The Flaming Lips will share the stage together in New Jersey on July 28th and New York on July 29th. Literally. As in… all of their gear will be up on stage at the same time and they will take turns performing a song. Yeasayer will open each night. AWESOME. [Source]

It seems as if it was just a few weeks ago that I posted the first sketch of Marchesa’s Playboy Costume redesign. Well, it looks like Marchesa designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig got down to work because the costume was finally revealed yesterday in London.

– Lauren Bush and Judith Leiber have collaborated together in designing the FEED evening clutch.

“The clutch retails for $495, far less than many of Leiber’s more elaborately bejeweled minaudières, and $250 from every bag sold will go to supporting global food-supply programs. In fact, each sale will provide 1,000 school meals for children in need, the largest amount yet associated with one of FEED’s products.” [Source]

– Ashley Fink and the Dalton Academy Warblers will also join New Directions on the Glee tour this summer. [Source]

– Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival has released their lineup. [Source]

Television

– Author James Frey will return to Oprah’s talk show in one of her last episodes to discuss his new book “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible” after she ripped him a new one five years ago for his book “A Million Little Pieces.” [Source]

– Chris Colfer has sold a pilot to the Disney Channel called The Little Leftover Witch. [Source]

– Justin Timberlake will host the May 21 season finale of Saturday Night Live with Lady Gaga as the musical guest. [Source] Stacked lineup.

– Demi Lovato has decided to leave her role on Disney’s “Sonny With a Chance” after receiving treatment for her eating disorder and bipolar disorder. She will continue to focus on her music career. [Source]

Believe it or not, Playboy Magazine isn’t just full of indecent photographs and scandalous centerfolds. They’ve got features, interviews, etc. everything a typical mag would have. I can’t exactly determine what every reader or subscriber’s intentions are when they are reading the magazine. I’m almost sure that most people aren’t picking it up for the articles, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Even if the articles are good, readers don’t necessarily want to be seen with a partly naked woman on the cover in public.

The same goes for online. The Playboy website is definitely not safe for the work. That’s where The Smoking Jacket comes in. It’s a new website developed by Playboy that includes everything safe for work and the articles that you’ve been looking for.

– Actress Jane Lynch will play the role of Sam’s [Jennette McCurdy] mother in the Nickelodeon series iCarly.

– Maroon 5 has released the CD cover artwork of their new album Hands All Over. It is potentially nsfw so you can check it out here

– Kelly Bensimon is struggling to stay relevant. She plans to release a work out video.

– The broken up Bachelor couple Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi have been offered to pose in both Playgirl and Playboy magazine respectively. Word on the street is that Vienna will have the cover in the near future and explains that it’s really for the money. No shameeee. [Source]

– Charlize Theron has made an appearance in Brandon Flowers’ new music video for his solo single “Crossfire.”

– Tori Spelling’s husband Dean McDermott has been put into intensive care today after a motorcycle accident. He has a collapsed lung. [source]

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Crystal Renn was known for being basically a spokes model for full size figured models. A recent shoot w/ photographer Nicholas Routzen is now shedding a different light on Crystal – one that might make her seem almost unrecognizable.

– Lily Allen will be doing the music for the Bridget Jone’s Diary Musical. [Source]

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In silly rules and laws…

– The French Parliament has just approved a law in which calling your spouse a foul name will earn you up to three years in jail and a $93,000 fine. They are calling this type of verbal abuse a psychological offense or criminal offense if you will. [source]

– Anthony Williams, a senator from Philadelphia, has decided to blame the plain white tee for gang violence and street gangs. He believes the elimination of huge white t-shirts will “decrease the power of street gangs” who prefer to hang out on street corners.

“During these tough economic times, we have to set our priorities and be a role model for the country. These children are looking for us to stand up for them, and we have to turn this ‘white-T culture’ in a different direction.”

Hey, sir, the white tee is a common staple for everyone. It’s efficient, fashionable [even in tall tee form] classic, and inexpensive. Next you’re going to tell us that we can’t wear blue denim.

Giving advice to Vanessa Hudgens at the Teen Choice Awards… we should just keep pointing and laughing at the people that DO do this. This is just another question off my list of unanswered questions. I cannot understand why girls do this still.

Possible reasons:

1. We are too involved w/ our technology these days

2. It’s a “turn on.”

3. Clearly this give you classy status right?

4. If girls are seeing other girls nude elsewhere they’ll think they look the same. …fail

My advice: Boys, just go look at an airbrushed Playboy. Heidi Montag is in the new issue! Save your girlfriends the future humiliation that you will drop upon her when you guys break up or she cheats on you. kthnx

Yeah… that song is kind of old now. In fact, probably the last time I heard it was when I was dancing to it on top of the speaker at Fall Ball. I said to Michael, “I’m actually really sad that Danity Kane broke up.” There were probably only three songs that I liked off of both of their albums combined but what I loved most was Aubrey and Aundrea on Making the Band together and their little friendship. It was my favorite part of watching !

Then Aubrey went crazy always making out w/ her dog in photos, posing for Playboy and dressing unclassily. It’s too bad Danity Kane is no more but I’m even more sad for Auburella… and the fact that those two aren’t friends anymore.